she’s never pulled anyone from a burning building she’s never rocked central park to a half a million fans screaming out her name she’s never hit a shot to win the game

she’s never left her footprints on the moon she’s never made a solo hot air balloon ride, around the world no, she’s just your everyday average girl (but)

she’s somebody’s hero a hero to her baby with a skinned up knee a little kiss is all she needs the keeper of the cheerios

the voice that brings snow white to life bedtime stories every night and that smile lets her know she’s somebody’s hero

she didn’t get a check every week like a nine-to fiver but she’s been a waiter and a cook and a taxi driver for twenty years, there at home until the day her girl was grown giving all her love to her was her life’s ambition

but now her baby’s movin’ on and she’ll soon be missin’ her but not today, those are tears of joy runnin’ down her face

she’s somebody’s hero a hero to her daughter in her wedding dress she gave her wings to leave the nest it hurts to let her baby go down the aisle she walks right by

looks back into her mother’s eyes and that smile lets her know she’s somebody’s hero

thirty years have flown right past her daughters’ starin’ at all the photographs of her mother and she wishes she could be like that oh, but she already is she’s somebody’s hero

a hero to her mother in a rockin’ chair she runs a brush through her silver hair the envy of the nursing home she drops by every afternoon

feeds her mama with a spoon and that smile lets her know her mother’s smile lets her know she’s somebody’s hero